# auricula
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin auricula (“external ear; ear”). Doublet of auricle.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə

### Noun

auricula (plural auriculae or auriculas)
* (anatomy) The external part of the ear.
    Synonyms: pinna, auricle
* (anatomy) A small conical pouch projecting from either atrium of the heart.
    Synonyms: atrial appendage, auricular appendix, auricle
* (palynology) A pronounced thickening at the corner of a trilete spore, beyond the end of the laesura.
    Synonym: valva
* (horticulture, plural: auriculas) An ornamental primrose (Primula auricula)
    Synonym: bear's ear
** 1919, Michael Wood, The White Island‎, page 122:Réné came on quietly, his trowel in one hand, some auricula roots in the other.

#### Related terms

* auricle
* auricular
* auricularis
* auriculate
* auriculo-

### References

* “auricula”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “auricula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* ōricula
* ōricla (late, proscribed)

### Etymology

From auris (“ear”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /au̯ˈri.ku.la/, [äu̯ˈrɪkʊɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /au̯ˈri.ku.la/, [äu̯ˈriːkulä]

### Noun

auricula f (genitive auriculae); first declension
* diminutive of auris:
** (anatomy) external ear, earlap
*** 54 B.C.E., Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem‎:Tu, quemadmodum me censes oportere esse et in re publica et in nostris inimicitiis, ita et esse et fore auricula infima scito molliorem.Whatever line you think I ought to take in politics and in treating my opponents, be sure I shall take, and shall be "gentler than any ear-lap.
** (in general) ear
    Synonym: auris

#### Inflection

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* auriculāris (adjective)
* auriculārius

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Neapolitan: aurecchia
** Old Italian: urecchio (possibly)
** Sicilian: auricchia, aricchia, aricchiu
* North Italian:
** Lombard: auregia
** Piedmontese: aurija, auria
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: orelye
** Gascon: aulhera, alhera
** Occitan: aurelha (all dialects)
    Vivaro-Alpine: aurilha
* Ibero-Romance:
** Galician: ourella
** Leonese: oureya
** Mirandese: oureilha
** Portuguese: ourelha (regional)
* Borrowings:
** → Catalan: aurícula
** → English: auricle, auricula
** → French: auricule
** → Galician: aurícula
** → Italian: auricola
** → Portuguese: aurícula
** → Romanian: auriculă
** → Spanish: aurícula
Reflexes of the early monophthongized variant ōricula:
* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: ureaclji
** Megleno-Romanian: ureacľă
** Istro-Romanian: urecľe, uręklja
** Romanian: ureche
* Dalmatian:
** oracla
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: orecchia
** Judeo-Italian: רֵיקֵילַה (rechela)
** Neapolitan: recchia
** Sicilian: ricchi, oricchia, ricchia, gricchia
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: olicra, oricia, oricla, oricra, ulicra
* North Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Emilian: uraccia
*** Ligurian: oêgia
*** Lombard: uregia, oreggia
*** Piedmontese: orija, oria
** Friulian: orele, vorele
** Ladin: orëdla
** Romansch: ureglia, uraglia (Puter, Vallader)
** Venetan: récia, orécia
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: orella
** Franco-Provençal: orelye
** Old French: oreille (see there for further descendants)
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: orella
*** →? Gascon: orelha
** Asturian: oreya
** Old Galician-Portuguese: orelha, orella
*** Galician: orella
*** Portuguese: orelha (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: [Term?]
*** Ladino: oreja
*** Spanish: oreja

### References

* D'Ambra, Raffaele. 1873. Vocabolario napolitano-toscano domestico di arti e mestieri. Naples: publ. by author. Page 75.
* Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “auricula”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 52
* ↑ Grandgent, Charles H. 1927. From Latin to Italian: An historical outline of the phonology and morphology of the Italian language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Page 45

### Further reading

* “auricula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “auricula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* auricula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* auricula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.